This article walks through the process of using WebSpy Vantage to create a comprehensive Remote Desktop Report by extracting information about remote desktop sessions (RDP) from your firewall log files. I'm using Firewall logs from Microsoft Forefront TMG, but you could just as easily use logs from other firewalls, such as the packet filter logs from Sophos UTM, or connection end events from Cisco ASA. The general process is the same. Let's get started.

This video takes you through some new features in WebSpy Vantage to help distribute web activity reports to managers throughout your organization. These new features include: Manually Assigned Group Managers Redesigned Separation and Permission workflow Manager Reports Manually Assigned Group Managers WebSpy Vantage has always had the ability to report on Departments, Cities, or any [...]

Using WebSpy Vantage to analyze and report across your Palo Alto Firewall deployment is a great way to keep on top of web usage throughout your organization. This guide will take you through the process of configuring Palo Alto Firewalls and WebSpy Vantage to produce accurate and meaningful web activity reports that can be utilized [...]

Update: The technique described in this series of blog articles has since been improved upon, and integrated into WebSpy Vantage 3.0 via the Origin Domain summary that is present in when analyzing any log files that contain URLs. We've called this feature Site Clean. It is also available in our separate Fastvue Reporter applications. See further details about our [...]

Update: The technique described in this series of blog articles has since been improved upon, and integrated into WebSpy Vantage 3.0 via the Origin Domain summary that is present in when analyzing any log files that contain URLs. We've called this feature Site Clean. It is also available in our separate Fastvue Reporter applications. See further details about our [...]

Update: The technique described in this series of blog articles has since been improved upon, and integrated into WebSpy Vantage 3.0 via the Origin Domain summary that is present in when analyzing any log files that contain URLs. We've called this feature Site Clean. It is also available in our separate Fastvue Reporter applications. See further details about our [...]

Update: The technique described in this series of blog articles has since been improved upon, and integrated into WebSpy Vantage 3.0 via the Origin Domain summary that is present in when analyzing any log files that contain URLs. We've called this feature Site Clean. It is also available in our separate Fastvue Reporter applications. See further details about our [...]

Update: The technique described in this series of blog articles has since been improved upon, and integrated into WebSpy Vantage 3.0 via the Origin Domain summary that is present in when analyzing any log files that contain URLs. We've called this feature Site Clean. It is also available in our separate Fastvue Reporter applications. See further details about our [...]

We have released an automatic update for the Vantage range of applications. This update includes some new loader formats as well minor fixes and improvements. Of note, this release includes support for the new format of IronPort, Palo Alto Threat and URL filtering, Clearswift Email Appliance, and Infoblox NIOS DNS queries; as well as improvements [...]